Proof of Family

Since this was an episode heavy on conversations and the characters musing about their own perceptions of their relationships and each other, I'm going to focus on the points that stuck out to me/questions that occurred to me as I watched.

1) Is the Amrit Manthan still on? 🤔 If yes, ab kiska chal raha hai? Babita ka? HS ka? ki Mini ka? Or does it not matter anymore since we've moved on to "Patiala Babes - Survivor edition" now?🤔

2) Babita is a super repressed and emotionally stunted woman.....a fact established a long time back.....why is the issue of her not being able to accept the timing of her own feelings with HS being criss crossed with the issue of HB arguing over Mini? 😕 We've been shown a 100 different ways how many cracks there are in these relationships.....what's the point of more of these convoluted connections? I'm supposed to sympathize for how lattu HS was over Babita since way back right in the middle of him so calmly stating that he only called himself Mini's father to appease Babita? 😕.....this is supposed to endear HB's relationship to me? Maaf karo bhai.

3) Ashnoor acted superbly in Mini's breakdown....if I feel for her after all this muddled mess and fiasco filled writing, it's thanks to her portrayal of Mini's exhaustion and hurt in that scene. I felt for a child so utterly lonely in that moment.....HS is busy reminiscing romantic history with a clueless Babita and that is juxtaposed with a child who feels so utterly lonely and broken deep inside.....am I really expected to feel for the "romantic couple" in this scenario? Also, I have no idea what random sidetrack pe Mini was babbling about Babita ruining relationships while trying to "manage" them.....Big LOL.....Babita and MANAGING something....bhai yeh kis Alternate Universe mein hota hai? Humne toh na dekha hai in many months.

4) I really don't get the point of the GP episode given how much the CD issue was clearly festering.....was that a token lollipop to appease people in the interim and then jump back to two more weeks of negativity? Is this the new normal? PB aisa toh na tha.

5) The topic of "Proof" also seems to be coming full circle....HS demanded proof that Mini didn't put the CD there on the wedding day.....now Babita wants him to prove himself as a father by being strict with Mini.....lol even now they are all running on proofs and ultimatums.....waah kya "family" hai. Instead of communicating and working through their issues with each other, all they can do is accuse and issue ultimatums to each other. Lovely.

6) And finally there's HS.....the writers have messed up on too many levels to summarize.....I have no patience left for his lattugiri over Babita, so I'll focus on his reaction to the father issue. The way he got up in frustration and burst out with a "Nahin ban sakaa main baap" shows that there is repressed pain inside there.....instead of communicating with Mini, he has decided to have sappy conversations with his clueless wife who is incapable of understanding his love for Mini or anyone else....so why exactly are we expected to root for this pair and this family? He finally showed some emotion in the last scene as he stormed off but kya matlab nikaalun main iska? He loves Mini but he's hurt ki someone asked him to prove his love for Mini by proving he can be a father? And why on earth does he expect BABITA to understand anything? Why is he expecting ANYTHING from her....it's confounding.

These days the episodes feel like the writers just toss out some token dialogues for conflict, then next episode will have some token sentimental dialogues for reconciliation but we aren't expected to really take any of these words seriously.....in the very next week, the characters prove those words moot😕

Mickey's survivor analogy didn't work for me.....Life should be for LIVING....not surviving....the show that once gave us concepts like "Forward Spiral" is now telling us simply to SURVIVE? 😕

Precap seems like a setup for some level of outburst.....the way HS glanced at Mini in the middle of the scolding session seemed to indicate he's doing it deliberately to prove a point.

At this point though, the emotional connections have been severely battered and too many balls have been dropped......the writers will never understand that it wasn't about the fact that emotional complexities couldn't be worked through....no one expected an immediate fairytale family.....but the horrible twisted way in which this has been executed....especially with dropping the ball for HS's character in showing his introspection on the father issue, the CD issue.....I'm not sure how they recover from this. And it doesn't seem like they care either.

Watching PB epis these days is emotionally battering...and not in a good way.....I have no problem with emotional complexities but the show has now deliberately chosen the route of tainting the core of the characters....that is not what the original essence of the show was.

Waise ek baat bolun? LOL HS spent almost 10 minutes today reminiscing about his love and attraction for Babita while she was giving him irritated/in denial looks......and koi connection nahin feel hua between their characters....zero chemistry.

Precap mein Mini is pissed and hurt with HS for yelling at her but there is chemistry even in the side look he gives her....they just give a sense of something being communicated between them even without words in so many scenes.

Lol mujhe toh chemistry nazar aarahi hai Hanita ke bich. To each his own though 🤷🏻‍♀️. Throughout their conversation, I could see it. Yes, Babita kept denying it but she failed to look at him directly. Nazre chura rahi thi. She is in denial mode but even she knows whatever HS said about them having attraction/feelings for each other since early on is true. She didn’t acknowledge it, yes but she will as per the segments.

Only thing I didn’t understand was HS saying he said Mini as his daughter in the puja to appease Babita. This didn’t make sense to me because clearly that was not how it was shown to the audience. Writers seem to have dropped the ball here 🤔

When the show first started there was a lot of chemistry between all the actors

Something has happened and it’s the CVs fault

They royally fu🤬🤬🤬🤬 up the show and characters

I get cringe feelings now when I see Hanita ...like they have zero emotions and no desires wants or needs ..

Babita gets dumber and dumber in every episode...and who the hell is handling her business???

Who the hell would trust that snake Kammo with their business and clients.

Wasn’t NB the new town mayor or whatever ? When was the last time you saw her doing such duties ??

HS is never at work and I’m surprised he isn’t fired

Originally posted by: LoveInAutumn26

Lol mujhe toh chemistry nazar aarahi hai Hanita ke bich. To each his own though 🤷🏻‍♀️. Throughout their conversation, I could see it. Yes, Babita kept denying it but she failed to look at him directly. Nazre chura rahi thi. She is in denial mode but even she knows whatever HS said about them having attraction/feelings for each other since early on is true. She didn’t acknowledge it, yes but she will as per the segments.

Only thing I didn’t understand was HS saying he said Mini as his daughter in the puja to appease Babita. This didn’t make sense to me because clearly that was not how it was shown to the audience. Writers seem to have dropped the ball here 🤔

LOL haan to each their own 😆

My expectations from HB were of substance....yours are different. It's fine.

As for the father declaration.....well, the writers have now clearly shown that for HS, the first priority was always Babita.....he loves Mini but only as an accompaniment to Babita.....itna toh aaj khud hi HS ke muh se bulva diya.

And for me, this is not the HS I connected with....yeh Babita ko hi mubarak ho😆

Originally posted by: silvermoonlight

When the show first started there was a lot of chemistry between all the actors

Something has happened and it’s the CVs fault

They royally fu🤬🤬🤬🤬 up the show and characters

I get cringe feelings now when I see Hanita ...like they have zero emotions and no desires wants or needs ..

Babita gets dumber and dumber in every episode...and who the hell is handling her business???

Who the hell would trust that snake Kammo with their business and clients.

Wasn’t NB the new town mayor or whatever ? When was the last time you saw her doing such duties ??

HS is never at work and I’m surprised he isn’t fired

LOL true.....no one does any work anymore.....I'd totally forgotten that NB was the president of their mohalla😆....that is when it's confirmed that PB has become a typical soap....where no one has any work to do but only engage in faltu contrived drama in every episode😆

And yes, HB totally make me cringe now.....the chemistry is contrived. Even their affectionate gestures are contrived....the way she tries to brush his hair with her fingers whenever they are alone looks so put on.....there has been no natural flow to their intimacy.....bas dikhaane ke liye dikhaa diya.....

Today they made HS recite a long laundry list of how he was instantly attracted to her....and it helped that she was beautiful....he is a man after all....his own honest words😆

^ well didn’t you yourself say because of Hormones?? 😆 Toh loh writers ne daal diya yeh bhi.

Originally posted by: LoveInAutumn26

^ well didn’t you yourself say because of Hormones?? 😆 Toh loh writers ne daal diya yeh bhi.

LOL yes, I've been saying since many days that HS is acting like a typical guy high on hormones.....marital benefits mil rahe hain shaadi ke baad so that's how he's behaving....he's become more obsessed with Babita ever since....at the cost of other relationships. Oh well.

Purana HS toh ab memories mein hi milega.....lol....yeh waala toh Babita ke liye special edition hai.

Ashnoor and Aniruddh’s both their performances were fabulous today though 👏

Originally posted by: LoveInAutumn26

Ashnoor and Aniruddh’s both their performances were fabulous today though 👏

Ashnoor was especially superb today.

As for Aniruddh....I think he really aced it in the last bits of his scene with Babita as the emotion finally broke through.....before that, I felt there wasn't that much emotionally to play with in the scene....he was mainly just reciting his "I was always attracted to you" kathaa😆

Paridhi toh😆.....I don't feel anything for Babita anymore and I guess it's too much to expect that Paridhi even can make me feeling anything for Babita at this point.

HS is being butchered right now too but Aniruddh can still bring conviction to the part.....same for Ashnoor....she makes you feel for Mini even as Mini makes mistakes and gets into a self-pity mode.